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“Your writing is not what we are looking for.” Why I do not want it to be:

I remember this wall. It is the agents-and-editors-are-busy-people-who-get-swamped-with-submissions wall. I learned about this wall when, right out of college, I sent out a bundle of hopeful article submissions and they, all except for one, bounced against the hard brick surface. I finally did get published and paid. But exhaustion dampened the thrill. The reward was […]

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Write Like Chocolate: Overcoming Reader Resistance

As a novelist, I do everything I can to hook the reader and enliven the text. The problem is that it is sometimes hard to get readers to begin my novel. Why? Because reading takes effort. The plight of the writer, and especially the novelist, is that the rewards of good writing cannot be experienced

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Writing Fiction: The Problem of Trying to Please

My college creative writing teacher said he had known a renowned writer who had written a terrible book. It was so abominable, he said, that anyone in his entire class of beginners could have done much better. It was so bad that my teacher had avoided the writer at a party and refused to speak to

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